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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18

young mans way. 1t is equally a service
to employer and employe that the latter,
however trustworthy, shall be afforded no
opportunity 10 steal.-Eyening Wisconsin
The Buddhist priests at Kiyote, Japan,
at recent meeting resolved that all Bndd-
hist 0rati0ns and exhortatiOns should be
kept free from any attack upon christian
ity, 'as all attacks upon the Christian faith
are inconsistent with the doctrines of
meekness and submission, as well as him
dering to the action of the Government
Just before his death Beecher wrote:
I'VE are going home. Men SILVER at the
idea that they are going to die; but this
world is only nest, We are scarcely
Matched out of it hare. We do not know
ourselves. We have strange feelings that
do not interpret themselves. The mortal
in US Is crying for the immortal. As in
the night the child, waking with some
vague and nameless terror, cries out to ex-
press its fear and dread, and its cry is in
terpreted in the mothers heart, who runs
to the child and lays her hand upon it and
Quiets it to sleep sgain, so God hears our
disturbances, trials and tribulstions OF life.
Do you not suppose that he who is good
ness itself cares for you2 Do you not suppose
that he whose royal name Is Love has less
sympathy for you than the mother has for
her babe? Let the world rock. IF the foot
of God is on the cradle, fear not. Look up,
take courage, hope and hope to the end"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
Feeding HAY From stacks.

Many farmers, being unable to provide
barns for storing hay, are compelled to
feed from stacks, with no little waste in
windy weather, and great discomfort in
blizzard. Mr.. J. Orner, in the Wheatland
Eagle, to obviate loss of hay and avoid ex-
posure in feeding, makes the following
suggestions: In building your barn or
stable, make two doors; one for stock to
pass in and out, and one for a feed-room
DOORS In stacking hay build two stacks
about ten feet wide, one on each side OF
the bedroom door, with space of five or
six feet between stacks. Build the stack
perpendicular on the inside till about two
feet above the door. Then place poles or
sCantling across from one stack to the other
and top out the stacks the same as If one
stack, which will leave a hallway between
the stacks to store hay in. In fair weather
cut a piece from the end of the stack
furthest from the door and place in the
hallway. Commence feeding from hay
next the door, and when your supply is
nearly exhausted Ell up again. By keep
ing the furthest end from the door full,
your hay will be free from snow, and you
can feed in the worst blizzard.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
Yhat to Save Coz Sod.

Many make the mistake, says a writer in
the Indiana Farmer, of using the first peas,
beans, tomatoes, radishes, lettuce and quite
a list of plants, and allow " hat is left to
mature for seed, 1t requires but g short
time for the effect of this kind of work to
show itself in lower grade of products.
The better plan is to select the best, as they
grow, for seed, not out Of what is left, but
the best at first. You want to save the
choice of the crop for seed instead of q
choice OF the leaving. ID the garden
supply of lettuce, radishes,. turnips, peas,
beans, melons. squashes, tomatoes. and ali
that class that mature seed the first year
can be saved to very good advantage. IL
You secure strong, vigorous plants and by
cultivation induce rapid growth, the best
will give you plants that VIII mature seed
that you can save. With field crops, such
as corn, oats, sorghum, or potatoes, it will
often psy to plant a small plot for the
especial purpose of growing for seed, taking
considerable pains to secure the best
growth and then selecting and storing the
best for seed. 1t is considerable expense
to he obliged TO purchase seed of this kind
every spring, and especially so when, by
making the proper effort, you can secure
fully as good as what you can purchas e.
But on no account save the seed unless you
have very good crop. Improve rather
than allow the seed to deteriorate. If you
can not DO this, it will be more econOm-
ical to purchase seed than to raise it. But
with proper care with quite number Of
varieties 1T will pey to raise and save your
own supply of seed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
Fruit Growing for Women.

A Massachusetts, woman, having an hour
or two each day to spare from hOus9work,
and wishing TO earn a little money, decid-
ed to try raising strawberries for market.
Her piece of land was fifty.seYen feet long,
and averaged fitty-seveD feet wide. The
plants were taken care of through the
season, and the last OF October the bed re-
ceived final hoeing, and little later the
plants were mulched about two inches
deep with pine needles. Before the picking
season commenced she bargained with a
msrket-man, a mile and half distant,
to take all her berries, by allowing him, as
his share, cents a basket for all berries
sold for 20 cents and over, and 3 cents for
those bringing less. In picking, she was
careful to put in only sound fruit, to have
as large berries at the bottom of the basket
as on top, and to have them heaped as
high as the crate would allow. 1t being a
poor year for strawberries, owing to
drought, which did not effect her low
ground, she received good prices. None
were sold for less than 10 cents basket.
The entire crop sold was $50 baskets, for
which she received $50 so. Expenses were
$2l.55, leaving a net profit Of S3L2j.
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A Georgia Cyclone PIT.

A Savannah, Ga, paper says: Perhaps
the largest, best arranged. best furnished
and most costly cyclone pit in the country
is owned by Ed Brown, OF Eatonton. 1t
is situated near the back door of his resi-
dence md is large enough to accommodate
his whole family. The walls are of brick,
laid in cement; the floor is carpeted, has a
fireplace and chimney. and the room is
handsomely furnished. The family could
spend the night there with as much COM
fort as in the dwelling. In preparing it
Mr.. Brown had an eye to its permanency
and spared no expense in making it pleas
ant and comfortable. To guard against
the contingency of the house blowing over
on it and imprisonIng the inmates large
sewer pipe leads of from the pit in an OPP
posite direction a distance of 100 yards,
through which the family could escape.
This unique underground dwelling is thor
ouehly protected against water rising from
below or running in from above. The cost
was over $500.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
A Study of Corn Planting.

There are the best of reasons for saying
that three feet and eight inches Is a stand
ard for width of corn rows. The acre is
the unit of measurement in farming. Now
three feet and eight inches apart for the
rows gives exactly eighteen rows to the
acre across the field from side to side, and
nine rows to the acre the long way of the
field. In the after cultivation of the crop,
the modern two-horse cultivators will work
TO the center of the row, while at four feet
or wider there will always be strip IN the
center that the cultivator teeth will not
disturb. If the corn be cut up nine hills
square each acre will have just forty
shocks; by huskiDg four shocks in differ.
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ent parts of the field the product will be
one-tenth the yield of an acre. Thus ac-
curacy can be determined, which to the
thinking farmer is worth something. The
value of this distance is perceived after the
crop Is gathered in, and when the field is
to be plowed again. Every plowman
knows how difficult it is to turn corn stub
bic under well, unless the last fUrrow be-
fore turning the bill covers up close to the
outside of it. Rows four feet apart require
three sixteen.inch burrows to compass the
space. This is too wide for ordinary plows;
four inches less space permits the three
burrows to turn the soil completely. The
above practice on my own farm tor several
years is so satisfactory that know it will
be adopted by others after years trial.
The distance named gives 5lS hills to the
acre more than at four feet, and requires
less seed to the hill. 1 aim to know that
my seed will terminate before planting,
and the rule is to plant just two kernels to
the hill and never less. If three are
dropped occasionally do not require one
to be picked out. but would as soon the
accident of one kernsl to the hill be made
as to have four planted. Too large a growth
of stfik is fatal to best results in the pro-
duct of grain.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Coffee Cake.-0ne cup of sweet milk, two
OF sugar, one of butter, three well beaten
eggs. two teaspoonfuls OF baking powder
worked into enough -four to make stiff
dough. Roll out thin, and sift ground Gin
namon on the sheet and roll up into roll (;
cut off slices from the roll and place on tins.
Before baking, sprinkle rather thickly dry
white sugar on tops of the slices.
Apple Cheese Cakes.-Pare, core and boil
sufficient apples to make half pound of pulp
when cooked; add to them q quarter of q
pound Of sifted sugar and the same of but
ter, four eggs, the rind and juice of one
lemon; melt the butter, and leave out the
whites OF two of the eggs; stir the mixture
well; line some patty pans with puff PASTE
put in the mixture and bake about twenty
minutes.
Rhubarb Wine.-Bruise five pounds OF
rhubarb, which has previously been cut
into small pieces, and place it in a bowl
with gallon of cold water. Let it stand
for about five days, stirring twice a day.
Strain off the liquor, and then add four
Dissolved add half pound of isinglass and
the rind OF lemon. Let the LIQUOR re-
main for five days, or till the fermentation
begins to subside. Draw of the wine, first
skimmipg the crust from the surface; put
ii into a cask and bung it down in two
weeks. In six months it will be ready for
bottllng. The wine should be drawn of
into another cask if it ferments after being
put in the first one.
POVERTY Cakes.-For this dish take any
scraps OF good food you happen to have lett
selves. AS example, will give a list of
what was used this morning for our break
fast. A couple spoonfuls OF frizzled beef
and cream, the lean meat of one mutton
chop. one spoonful of minced beef, two
cold hard-boiled eggs, o little cold chopped
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potato, little mashed potato, a chicken |
drum-stick, all the gristle and hard out |
side taken from the meat. These things |
were well chopped, seasoned, mixed with
one egg and little flower and butter
mixed and thickened with boiling water,
then made into round cakes, thick, like
Goldfish balls, and Drowned well on the
gIiddle. ] have used in these cakes scraps
of hash, cold rice, rolled wheat left over
from breakfast, every kind of fresh meat
that We use, bits of salt tongue, bacon, pork
and ham, bits of poultry and crumbs OF
bread; they must be made with care not to
have them too dry to be palatable or too
moist 10 cook in shape. They are fsvorite
breakfast here, and gather up the frag-
ments."
. Pippin Pudding. Pare aud core six large
pippin apples and put them in pudding
dish with a cupful of cold water, cover
and bake until straw will pierce them.
Let them stand covered until the next
day when drain off the water, and put q
spoonful of Jelly and a few drops OF
brandy in each apple. StreW with CHINA.
non and sugar. ScaId one and half
cups of milk; stir in six ounces of meca-
rooms crumbied, little salt and a desert
spoonful of corn-starch wet with cold
milk; boil for a minute or two and take
from the FIRE, whisk it well and let it cool
before adding the whipped whites Of three
eggs. Pour this custard over the apples
and bake for half an hour, Make a sauce
with the water in which the apples were
cooked, sweetened and spiced, thicken
with teaspoonful of flour, wet with cold
water, add tablespoonful Of butter, and
pour slowly over the beaten yolk OF one
egg. The macaroons may be omitted If
they are not easily obtainable.
In these days when everybody is begin
ming to realize the danger from intoxicants,
ii is well to know about any wholesome
drink that can in any way become desir-
able substitute for alcoholic beverages.
Such drink is koumiss. In answer to a
question as to how it can be made at
home the Western Plowman gives the fol
! lowing particulars. We prepare koumiss
in this way: We take a quart-size, self
sealing, glass fruit can, and fill it with
sweet milk. Then two or three teaspoon
fuls of sugar are added, and the milk well
shaken. About one-quarter of q cents
worth of yeast cake completes the prepare
ton, and then the cover is screwed down
tight. Place the jar where it will be sub
| ject to temperature of about seventy de-
grees Fahrenheit, and shake it we'll al
intervals of about one hour. II you make
| it in the morning, let it remain until
night, when ii may be placed on ice or in
| cool place. The next morning it will be
ready for use. In opening the can it had
| better be done over pan, as the koumiss
| frequently comes out in something of 8
| hurry. If you want it particularly effer-
vescent, put a little sugar in the glass yOI
pour it into. OF course, champagne bot
| ties are better than fruit cans, but the
latter are always handy and will answer
The purpose.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
He is Given Public Reception by the
Citizens of Meridian, Miss.

He is Given a Public Reception by the
Citizens of Meridian, Miss.
MERIDIAN, Mis-, May 13.-At IL O'Clock
yesterday morning public reception was
given to Mr.. Jefferson Davis at the resi-
dence of Colonel r. ]. Mcintosh, where he
is stopping. For two hours a perfect
stream of people passed through the par
lors and shock hands with the ex-chieftain
and his beautiful daughter. Mr.. Davis was
in his best humor and had pleasant word
for each one that shook his hand. At 3
o'clock last evening banquet and recep.
ton was given in the courthouse grounds.
Mr.. Davis made short address, in which
he thanked the people of Meridian for
their most cordial reception. at this point
members of the Press Association assembled
the platform in a body and presented their
respects to him. at the banquet there
were 800 plates, and seated at the tables
were the most distinguished men of the
State. A floral wreath was brought in and
Z. II. Dial presented it to Mr.. Davis in the
name of the women of Meridian. Mr..
Davis, in accepting it, said:
'God has graced the South with beauti-
full flowers and lovely women. The most
blessed of women are those of our own
southland. With such feeling expressions
the beautiful flowers which were arranged
so artistically by loving hands are more
beautiful than anything that has been
given to me-"
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The Improved Dorset Pig.

The Dorset pig Of this day is a result of
the union of the improved blood of Wilt
shire and Hampshire, and these are the
product Of judicious intermingling of the
old Essex, the Chinese and the Neapolitan
stocks with the native stock OF those sec
tionk The situation of the county, adj
joining Hampshire and Wiltshire, makes
reasonable the suggestion as TO the sources
whence the improvement has been ad-
vanced. For bacon, Wiltshire is, and for
generations has been, celebrated, as has
neen Yorkshire for hams. and Dorset is a
strong competitor of both, with it's inn
proved pigs, which are persistent winners
OF prizes at agricultural shows.
It seems PROBABLE, too, that the Bsrk-
shire played a very important part in the
improvement of the Dorset pigs, for the
present breed of Berkshire is a moderate
sized animal, soundly built, short IN the
leg. with short, arched neck, heavy
cheeks, sharp ears, sn upright forehead,
while the barrel is very good, the back
broad, and the whole shape up to the buy
er's standard.
There are few sections Of country, either
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
INDIANA STATE sENTINEIa WEDNESDAY MAY1S 1887.

man Of long experience and remarkable
success as both preventive and a remedy:
Give twenty-five drops OF tincture aconite
in water every six hours until four doses
are gwen; between doses administer an
ounce of pulverized charcoal in cider to
the number Of four dozen. This is said sell
dom to fail in producing the desired result
The report of the secretary of the Hol-
ein-Friesian Cattle Association shows
.hat 5000 breeders are connected with 1t,
and that nearly 5000 cattle are recorded.
The association requests the Legislatures of
the several States TO enact laws Furnishing
false registry of animals. AT the annual
meeting $1,000 was appropriated as extra
premiums 10 winning Holsteins at the
dairy shows to be held in New York this
month, while $1,000 was set apart to be
used at the various coming fairs. The Sec
rotary was authorized to expend $500 in
furnishing the Missouri Agricultural Soci-
ETY. with ten calves, to be fed for expert
ont
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Keep the Managers Clean.

The more high-bred and spirited the horse
the more dainty be will be about his feed,
and the greater care must be taken to keep
feed boxes and managers free from filth. Al
most any scrub would, however, refuse to
eat out OF managers as they often are left.
with portions OF the unconsumed hay or
grain to be run over and soiled by fowls
while the horse Is away at work. This is q
too common condition OF many farmers
stables at this season, when increasing
warmth dulls the appetite and makes solid
food doubly offensive by its decay. Many
a hard-ToTked horse gets Off his feed, as it
is said, and grows poor from this cause
alone. More care should be taken at this
season to feed only what will be eaten clean,
whether of hay, meal or grain. If any re-
mains when the horse is taken out in the
morning to work il should be removed
from the feed box aud given to some other
animal that viii eat it outside the stable.
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in the United States or England, into
which the Berkshire pig has not made its
way, and everywhere its excellent qualities
have made its a favorite on account of its
moderate size, small bones, thin skin, ease
of fattening. and the character OF its flesh.
In all directions the breed has extended
itself, changing old races for the better,
and mixing its blood advantageously with
that of all other strains and races. The
Improved Leicester, also, and the i'm
proved Essex have bestowed their good
qualities freely upon other lines, and it is
from all these combinations, so interviewer
as to leave the exact source OF supply TO-
distinct, under the modern system of inter
breeding, that the valuable breed OF Dorset
has been derived.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
Cornstalks In Manure.

Where cornstalks have been fed uncut
their long, woody substance makes the ma.
nure not only difficult to handle, but re-
duces its value very materially. 1t is hard
work doing good blowing with loose long
stalks covering the surface, and when they
are turned under the furrow the effect on
light, dry ground is to nearly neutralize the
value Of the manure. In dry season such
manure does even more harm than good.
On heavy and rather wet land these corn
stalks may be beneficial by improving its
mechanical condition, especially for corn.
But where cornstalks have been cut into
short lengths the stubs uneaten serve an
excellent purpose as manure absorbent,
and in this condition make good manure
or any crop.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
THE FARM BUDGET.
lIsgetS and tS-Runts-Ths D1rSst Pig
Fruit-GEowlng for Women.
The value of HoBey-Eor Seed-Shape of
Plgs-COrn Pianting-Farm and
House Notes.
Insects and Pests.
Chicago Herald.I


There Will be insects to combat this
month in garden and orchard. The onion
mageot will begin to work when the young
plants are large enough for hoeing, or
little later il the onions have made an
early growth. The first sign noticed will
be the dropping of onion tops. and if the
maggOt is not stopped esch worm will
move along the row, taking every onion
for one or Two feet. as there may be more
than one on the first plant, and as the
eggs may be deposited very thickly over
the field, they make sad work, often taking
whole rows in q few days, or perhaps
so reducing the whole field as 10 make it
the better way to plow it up and devote it
to other crops. Where they are but few,
the only sure way is to take the root out
as soon as the top begins to wilt, and per
haps one or two on each side OF it in the
row, and take up the soil at least an inch
in depth. Remove this from the field en-
tiTely and either devote it to the compost
heap or to such drying as will kill the
little maggOt that does the mischief. 1t
msy be necessary to look over the field
twice a day for q week or more before all
will be des1 Dyed. But in no other way
can the value of the field be preserved as
an onion field. the only other remedy is
to devote it to grass or other crops for
three or four years and grow no onions
near il.
The cabbage fly can be driven away by
occasionally sprinkling the leaves with
fine tobacco, pulveriZed sulphur and plas-
ter mixed together. Fer the cabbage worm
use solution of saltpetre st the rate Of a
quarter Of pound in two gallons OF water,
with which shower the plants literally.
This is also useful for destroying rose bugs,
and if little or it is used in watering cab
bage and tomato plants or melon hills, it
may prevent the cut-worm from attacking
them. For the currant worm, pO Wdered
hellebOre is a sure destroyer, and il used
freely until after the eurrants blossom the
worms seldom appear later. as it is pois-
onOus, it should not be used after the ber-
ries are grown, when it will be necessary to
depend upon Manipulating. The same eau
tiOn should be observed in regard 10 paris
green upon tomato and egg-plants for the
destruction of the Colorado teetle. One
pound of the paris green well mixed into a
hundred weight of fine ground plaster is
the best method of applying that poison to
the potato vines, or 10 the above crops be-
fore the fruit forms. To destroy c3nker
worms. stir tablespoonful OF paris green
into pail of water, and with a small force
pump or syringe thoroughly shower the
tree
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Potatoes win Deem Eyes.

No potato Is likely to be popular for mar
ket which hes deep eyes. WhateverIts ex-
cellence in other respects, this defect makes
it less salsble. There is not only a great
loss in PREF airing such potatoes for cooking,
but it is the most valuable part OF the
potato, which is near the skin. A smooth,
even surface with eyes not deeply set en-
ables the housewife to pare the potato with
little waste, and if combined with elongated
shape to bake them unpeeled, which is
perhaps the best way to cook this vegeta-
HE
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A Family Cremated.

PITTsBURG, May ia horrible accident
occurred last evening at Coal Valley, few
miles from McKeesport, which resulted in
the burning to death of Mrs. Cook and her
two little children, and the total destruc-
ton of the house. She was using petro-
leum oil to kindle fire when the contents
of the can were ignited and an explosion
followed. The woman rushed out of the
house with her clothing in flames aud per
ished in the yard. The house took fire and
was consumed, and two little children
who were in it persisted in the flames. A
third child only escaped similar fate by
following her mother out Of the house.
The husband is q miner.